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serious question: for pages like OF, spotify, YouTube, what deincentivizes creators from amassing fake subs/followers? Sub count actually matters when getting new subs so (ie: most people are more likely to sub to 1m Youtube subs than 1k subs) wouldnt all creators then seek out fake profiles services when theyre getting started?

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You are not wrong that big content-creators can more easily get 1000 new followers than someone starting from scratch. But the amount of followers is only one metric that for example the YT-algorithm uses. Viewer-retention, amount of comments, amount of videos posted and the length of plus probably hundreds of other metrics are important as well and only ticking one of those boxes will only get you so far

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